He only claims New Orleans when it makes him money. He also claims to be a gangster and anyone whose ever known him knows that's a complete joke. The dude is a complete clown and is a moron no matter what anybody tries to tell you. Die hard Brett Favre fan?? Who knew Lil Wayne loved Kiln so much. I saw him on Around the Horn a few months ago and he looked so stupid that I was embarrassed. He should stick to French Kissing Baby and leave sports to the rest of us. BTW he was at the Hornets game tonight, his PR guy must've told him to go embrace New Orleans b/c of the bad publicity he was getting.

In all honesty if you build your camp across from a bar and get pi**ed off because you hear music after 10 PM you're an idiot. The piece was made to look very anti-Grand Isle, but I actually thought the camp owner looked like a crybaby on it. What do you want the bar owners to do? Go out of business. I can't blame the Grand Isle citizens for protecting their own businesses, we do the same here in New Orleans. If Dennis Woltering walks into my bar trying to start some B.S. I can assure you he'll receive the same treatment.

The only thing Alleva is doing for New Orleans sports is renegotiating the LSU-Tulane series ensuring the only time LSU will play in New Orleans is the Sugar Bowl. Wright Waters? Collis Temple are you serious? Mackie Shilstone ahead of the guy totally responsible for all Saints personnel decisions (Loomis)? If Tom Benson is #1 shouldn't Rita be #1b? Who the fu*k wrote this list.

I own a bar in Old Metairie and have been robbed after closing hours twice in the last year and a half. The last robbery I left the bar by myself at 4:15 am, when the police picked up the audit slip from the Video Poker machine that had been busted open it said 4:22 am, which means whoever robbed me was watching me. Needless to say after that I had Jefferson Parish deputies passing at least twice an hour during the night and they were literally parking in front of my bar from 2am-6am for several months. The alarm went off 2 months later for some reason and when I got there 11 Jefferson Parish cop cars were waiting. The heightened presence has remained and (knock on wood) I haven't had any problems since. I've found JP's to be way more proactive then NOPD. About 2 weeks after the Grits shooting a couple of years ago we got into a car accident with a black guy right on the corner. He jumped out of his car and went into his trunk and pulled a gun on us. He didnt shoot, but when the NOPD got there (mostly black) they said he felt threatened because there were alot of white people around and he did nothing wrong. There were at least 15 NOPD at the scene (2 were white) the black guy who pulled the gun was yelling at me and calling me a Motha Fu**in cracka and started running at me while all the cops were there. One of the white cops grabbed him and cuffed him but 5 minutes later his handcuffs were taken off by the black cop in charge and they handed him his gun back and let him drive off. After he drove off the black cop told me if I didnt get my mothafuc**in "WHITE ASS" off "HIS SIDEWALK" I was going to jail. I asked for what? I didnt pull a gun and I didnt go 50mph the wrong way down a side street (Annunciation) and slam into a car. He drew his billy club and started heading my way when one of the white cops grabbed me, handcuffed me, walked me down the block and told me, "I'm not arresting you, I understand what happened, I understand how fuc**d up this situation is, I dont want to see you go to jail. He's a piece of Sh*t (talkin about his superior officer) but he's in charge and he's one of them. Do yourself a favor and go in the bar and forget about it."

If the bartenders smoke themselves do they still have a right to sue the bar owners? There are a million different jobs out there, why would you knowingly apply for a job where smoking is more than prevalent?? Probably because the pay is good which goes back to my statement earlier. If you give non-smoking bartenders the option between breathing clean air and making $125 or dealing with smoke for $225 all of the bartenders are going to go for the $225 option. Nobody forces any job upon anyone, people choose jobs that are hazardous all the time (police, firemen, snow crabbers, construction, installing insulation, working on a rig, etc. etc.) bartenders know the deal when they walk in the door. Revenue, customers, tips, sales taxes, etc. are going to go down if this bill ever passes. That's a fact. I hate smoke as much as the next guy but this is America. I operate my own business, I pay taxes, I obey the law. I should be able to allow something that is legal in my establishment if I choose to. As for The Republic and Le Phare not allowing smoking in their bars that's because neither of those places is A BAR. Those are clubs, just like the ones in Houston and New York and every other cheesy a** city. True neighborhood bars are the vast majority in this city. If you want New Orleans to turn into a cheesy club scene with new clubs opening and closing every few years instead of long standing neighborhood bars pass this law. Most small bars in this city do not make a whole lot of money, if you cut our business by half for a year or even 6 months we'll be out of business.

As a non smoker that owns a bar I can tell that this ban would've killed many small bars in the area. It would've put me out of business without a doubt. If you polled bar employees and asked them "Would you rather make $125 in tips without smoke or make $225 in tips with smoke, I would assume 90-95% would've gone for the $225. I employ 10 people and we have 5 smokers and 5 non-smokers and all of them were completely against the ban. I enjoy listening to people who rarely go to bars telling me how it is and how it's going to be after the ban. I own a bar and I'm in there 7 days a week and I do not smoke and I'm telling you a ban would put me out of business and many others like me. The truth of the matter is that "regulars" you know the people that are the lifeblood of a barroom (those that are there 4-6 days a week) are overwhelmingly smokers. If you take those people out of the equation or force them to get up everytime they want to smoke instead of allowing them to stay in their barstool and drink, not only are they going to frequent the bar less, they are also going to spend less. When that happens it doesnt matter if the "bi-monthly" customer that spends $40 a month at the bar enjoys better air quality inside the bar b/c the bar will go out of business. It's the smokers that keep bars afloat. That's a fact in this area. We have a bar culture that has many small, hole-in-the wall type bars where the same people have been sitting in the same barstools for 5,10,20 years. This isn't Houston where new clubs pop up every year and go out of business the next. Instead of looking at all these ridiculous studies about how smoking bans affect this and that in this state or that state, maybe these idiots should come do some actual research. Had they walked into my bar today at 5:30 P.M. they would've counted 12 people in there, 10 of whom were smoking.

I own a bar, I dont like smoke and I dont smoke, but if this bill passes many bars like mine WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS. If your patrons are over the age of 21 you should be allowed to smoke in the bar. This is completely ridiculous, what happened to living in a free country. One of their reasons for this bill is that restaurants aren't on a level playing field. Honestly, I dont believe the ban should be in restaurants either, but if they really want a level playing field why not allow bars to admit anyone of any age?? I know that sounds ridiculous, but thats as absurd as people not being allowed to smoke in a bar. Quite frankly, if you're going to ban smoking in bars you should ban smoking everywhere, outside, in your car, on the street, IN CASINOS, etc. etc. Are we headed back to prohibition?

Kind of hilarious listening to LSU fans talk about another team handing recruits free gifts and money. I guess none of yall remember a certain booster giving Stromile $250K to stay at LSU another year only to have Stromile take the money and run.

An incompetent mayor defending an incompetent trash director and once again bringing up race when it has nothing to do with race. Get rid of all of them. Thank God someone is doing their job, that being Stacy Head.

Yea JD, "dollar dollar bills ya'll". This guy has been a horrendous writer for too long, he embarasses the Times Picayune on a weekly basis and that's saying alot. I tell you what, if the Euro Leagues aren't willing to pay you, we the Times Picayune Sports Page readers will happily take up a collection to pay you to move to Europe and stop writing moronic B.S. Maybe we'll get lucky and The Advocate will offer you more money and you can "Swoosh" your a$$ to Baton Rouge. Idiot.